The eye cannot see it; mind cannot grasp it.The deathless Self has neither cast nor race.Neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet.Sages say this Self is infinite in the greatAnd in the small, everlasting and changeless,The source of life.

As the web issues out of the spiderAnd is withdrawn, as plants sprout from the earth,As hair grows from the body, even so,The sages say, this universe springs fromThe deathless Self, the source of life.

The deathless Self meditated uponHimself and projected the universeAs evolutionary energy.From this energy developed life, mind,The elements, and the world of karma,Which is enchained by cause and effect.

The deathless Self sees all, knows all. From him Springs Brahma, who embodies the processOf evolution into name and form By which the One appears to be many.

The Imperishable is the Lord of Love.As from a blazing fire thousands of sparksLeap forth, so millions of beings ariseFrom the Lord of Love and return to him.

(The Sage that authored chapter two of the Mundaka Upanishad, translated by Eknath Easwaran, in, The Upanishads, Nilgiri Press)